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'No need to panic over Chinese incursions'
Published on Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 20:57, Updated on Sat, Jan 12, 2008 at 23:29 in India section
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New Delhi: As Prime Minister Manmohan Singh gets ready to take off for China, the issue of cross-border incursions by the Chinese army personnel has once again taken centre stage.
External Affairs Minister Pranab Mukherjee responded to a question about Chinese incursions by saying that they do take place "sometimes" across the Line of Actual Control (LAC) but there was no need to press any "panic button".
"There is nothing to be worried of at this point of time and the mechanisms which we have are doing well," Mukherjee told Karan Thapar on Devil's Advocate programme of CNN-IBN.
"Sometimes incursions take place. We immediately take it up. Mechanisms have been established through which we address these type of problems," he said.
Asked whether the frequency or the number of incursions have increased, he said, "It is not unusual (but) it has not suddenly increased."
The Prime Minister, who leaves for Beijing on Saturday night on a three-day visit, will hold wide-ranging talks with his Chinese counterpart Wen Jiabao and will also call on President Hu Jintao.
Questioned about concerns expressed by senior Indian army generals on the development of infrastructure on the Chinese side of the Sino-India border in Arunachal Pradesh, Mukherjee said it was a "known fact" that their infrastructure in terms of road, electricity and availability of other facilities "is much superior to that on our side."
Mukherjee, a former defence minister, made it clear that there was no question of India letting down its vigilance.
"But at the same time, the situation that is prevailing right now on the border and along the LAC, there is no need of pressing any panic button. Peace and tranquillity are being retained there."
On the developments in Pakistan, Mukherjee said he had "tremendous faith" in the resilience of the Pakistani people to manage their crisis.
"I do hope they will overcome this crisis. We shall have to keep in mind that in different places there have been different type of problems in the history of Pakistan but some how or the other the people of Pakistan and the system there, they have managed the situation," he said.
Asked if he believed President Pervez Musharraf faced the danger of being removed by the army, he said there was an element of unpredictability.
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No need to panic... Let the chinese troops reach Delhi.. then we will see..
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if our army is not allowed to defend its country's borders with a small country like bangladesh and our 'bhai,
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For the sake of the nation its time the people resolve to vote out this useless and selfserving bunch of
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Coincidentally, in 1962 when Chinese troops were already 5 miles into the Indian soil, the then defence minister V Krishna
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Mr.mukherhee is good at kicking his own people as happened in calcutta during his meeting with his party people,now he
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